Harry C. Wagner

PRIVATE HARRY C. WAGNER was born in December of 1895, the son of Philip and Anna Wagner. His parents had emigrated from Germany in 1886, settling in Pennsylvania. Harry Wagner was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. The Wagners had moved to Camden NJ with his family by 1903. They owned a home at 641 Pine Street in Camden. Philip Wagner was a carpenter by trade, and appears to have been employed as a contractor, as another son also worked as a carpenter.

Harry Wagner enlisted in the United States Army on June 2, 1917.  He was sent initially to Fort Slocum NY, and received training at Camp Riley, Camp Merritt, and Fort San Houston TX before being sent overseas on September 18, 1918.

Private Harry C. Wagner died of pneumonia at Pont du Lac, France on March 27, 1919. He was survived by his parents, brothers Walter, Philip Jr., and Henry, and sisters Julia, Anna, Charlotte, Gertrude, and a niece, Florence Henry. His mother passed in the 1920s. By 1930 Philip Wagner had remarried and moved to Somerdale NJ. Brother Walter Wagner named his son, born in 1921, Harry after his late soldier brother.